The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-08
CITY NOTES.

CII1 NOIES.
Capt. Mann of, Meanwhile, wa sin town
yesterday.
Miss V. +. Darlington has returned
from short but pleasant visit to Wash
ington City, and Virginia.
Major G. p. Healey. the gallant sheriff
of Volusia County, is in town, circulat-
ing among his many friends.
Capt. j. b. Cole and family, of East
Palatka, will leave to-day for Brooklyn,
N. ", on their annual summer visit.
w. III. Pingree and wife will leave to-
day for New York. where they go to
spend the summer. They will return to-
Palatka in October
Who would want better or prettier
summer weather than we are now hav-
ing in Palatka? This breeze is not to be
found so delightful anywhere else.
Maj. Campbell, the United States Bank
Examiner who has been here looking
into the affairs of the Palatka National
Bank, leaves this morning for his home
in Montgomery, Ala.
MIR. John T. Dunn and family have
gone over to the Halifax Beach and
gone into regular camp life for a while
He carried the little ponies along to
keep his children company.
DIR. John M. Dickson, of Titusville, is
in the city en- route to Jacksonville. 1t is
his first visit to Palatka in seventeen
years, and he misses all the old land
marks that We're conspicuous at that
time.
c. w. Hill has been appointed quaran-
tine officer and stationed at Yelvington
on the st. Johns and Halifax Railroad.
He will keep all Key West refugees from
getting into Palatka by that popular
route.
MIR. Jamison, who lives up the river,
dug up casava root on his place a few
days ago chat measured nine feet in
length. and seven inches in diameter. 1t
was tine root, and shows how such
things will grow in Florida.
"A notice from the Treasury Depart
ment of the United States is published
elsewhere this morning, which is of great
interest to all parties holding claims
against the Palatka National Bank If
you are interested it would he well to
read the notice
DIR. w. w. Breeze, one of the editors
of the State Temperance Alliance. is in
the city in the interest of his paper. He
gave us call yesterday, and i'm pleas
ant conversation he informed us that the
temperance sentiment was growing in
Florida, and that his paper was on a reg
ular boom.
Messrs- Haughton Bros. have but lit
tie to complain of in the way of dull
times, for they continue to fill orders
that come in every direction from their
long list of customers. They are carry
ing heavy stock at present, and will
continue to supply every demand the
public may make on Them
The entertainment given, last evening.
by the BiJou Comedy Company, was a
success, and would have been greeted by
a full house, which it deserved, if it had
not been for the meetings of the City
Council, Gem City Guards and Palatka
Club. Space and time will not allow us
to give detailed report. and it is need
less to say that all who took part sus-
tanned their well earned reputation, and
won well merited applause
A noted Cuban physician says that it
Is not yellow fever at all at Key West.
but kind of bilious fever that nearly all
who go to Key West have before they
become acclimated. That may be all
correct, but we want that bilious fever
confined at Key West, which the rigid
quarantine now in force will no doubt
succeed in doing. The weather is said to
be most unfavorable ON the island, vet
the disease is spreading very slowly i'm
the city, which leads us to hope that it
NAV soon be stamped out.
"A young gentleman, well known in
Palatka, started out, a few days since.
to gather up the statistics of the whisky
trade of the city, and his report certainly
embraced all the business done here i'm
that line. According To his figures tine
total business amounted to $3.50, 900. 1t
is not known, at this writing. by what
process or rule these figures were
reached. but it is supposed that his ideas
were about 500. Zoo higher by the time
he reached the last saloon than they
should have been. A man usually grows
very rich by the time he makes the
rounds of eight saloons.
The Kerr City advertiser says of the
recent railroad meeting at Norwalk:
The railroad meeting at Norwalk on
Monday last was not largely attended on
account of rain, but those that were
present We're there for business. F. A.
harrison was present and stated what